President Obama made a surprise appearance at Friday afternoon's White House news briefing to try to calm the furor over his criticism of Henry Louis Gates' arrest. The president said he called Sgt. James Crowley to explain he didn't intend to criticize the arresting officer personally. Obama said he believes police and the Harvard professor both "overreacted." Crowley suggested that he, Gates and Obama get together at the White House to share a beer and talk things over -- and the president said he wants to do that.
-- As President Obama tries to keep the focus on health care reform, coverage of the issue is being drowned out by the uproar over his remark about the Cambridge, Mass. police.
Obama stands by his statement that police "acted stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis Gates in the black Harvard scholar's own home. But he's tempering his criticism, telling ABC that the white sergeant who arrested Gates seems to be an "outstanding police officer."

It did not take Obama long to spin his way out of this latest gaff. He always stumbles once the teleprompter is turned off.

A few members of the local SWAT team were in the shop yesterday to hang out and shoot the bull. They were not too happy with Obama's latest comments. The conversation ended with laughter, as one of us mocked the president with a voodoo dance and chant. It would seem Obama gets no respect these days.

The cop ought to flat out refuse to go. Show he can't be "bought". Stand up for the White men getting bashed every single day. Let the 2 White-hating "bros" hang out, get drunk and pick up homos in the limo.

It did not take Obama long to spin his way out of this latest gaff. He always stumbles once the teleprompter is turned off.

A few members of the local SWAT team were in the shop yesterday to hang out and shoot the bull. They were not too happy with Obama's latest comments. The conversation ended with laughter, as one of us mocked the president with a voodoo dance and chant. It would seem Obama gets no respect these days.

I could see why SWAT, or any law enforcement officer, would be riteously torqued out of shape by our "president".

You walk into any of the type of situations they face, and you have to assert some control.
Not pleasant for the innocent, but still needed. That guy trying to force the door, 99 times out of 100, isn't innocent and safe to deal with. Officer Crowley did exactly the right thing.

I wonder if THIS ever penetrated the sloped brow of the college "professor":
Suppose he'd gone home, actually had remembered his keys, and found the house ransacked. Called the police. They told him, "yes, we were out there earlier, because someone was breaking the front door. But he informed us that he owned the place, and went inside. Our officer, having graduated from one of the racial sensitivity classes that Harvard Professors suggested we teach, didn't follow him in, because he didn't have permission, and the gentleman entering your home was black. So he took the man's word for it, wished him a nice day, and left. Sorry about your loss".

What would Hannukah Harvard thing then? Would he feel that the PO-leese had failed to defend his property because he was black?

Yep.

And our "president" would still have stated that the Harvard police had behaved "stupidly".